Poetry on Brick Street Presents
Shari Wagner

Shari Wagner has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University and has taught poetry writing in universities, grade schools and nursing homes.She is the author of two poetry books: The Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems of Indiana (Bottom Dog Press, 2013) and Evening Chore(Cascadia, 2005). She is also co-writer of her father’s memoir about Somalia, A Hundred Camels (Cascadia, 2009), and editor of Returning: Stories from the Indianapolis Senior Center (INwords, 2012). Most recently, her poems and creative non-fiction have appeared in North American Review, The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor, Shenandoah, The Christian Century, The Midwest Quarterly and National Wetlands Newsletter. Her work has been nominated twice for Pushcart Prizes, and she has been awarded two Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellowships, as well as eight grants from the Indiana Arts Commission.  In 2009, she was co-winner of Shenandoah’s The Carter Prize for the Essay.  Visit her facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shari-Wagner/386120974838870